In the absence of broadly appealing new films and TV series (no Oscar hopeful this month, I’m afraid), Netflix seems to be looking into the podcast market to find out how to keep its massive subscriber base happy. The new March offering includes a lot of documentary series and specials that I would totally listen to, if they were podcasts. Shall I watch? Good, I will not. (I have not even seen Ted Lasso anyway.) But maybe.
Operation: Varsity Blues (March 17) will no doubt turn heads, as we were all fascinated by the college admissions scandal that toppled such titans of culture as Felicity Huffman, Aunt Becky from Full House, and the fashion mogul who once designed a paper towel holder I bought at Target. Everyone is still pissed off at the way these already-had-ers manipulated a system that was already in their favor to get their kids into ‘good’ colleges, and with good reason. The documentary comes from part of the same team that produced early on pandemic sensation Tiger King.
Murder of the Mormons (March 3) is the kind of mildly exploitative true crime story that seems like it was already a podcast you subscribed to last year but forgot to listen. It delves into a series of bombings that terrorized Salt Lake City in the mid-1980s.
And an inspiring story of perseverance in the Hope Dreams mold, Last Chance U: Basketball (March 10) is a spin-off from Netflix’s long-running series Last Chance U. It shifts the focus of football on collegiate basketball players who have struggled in their lives and studies and who must play at the junior college level if they hope to return to Division play.
If you prefer a little more fiction in your diet for watching TV, I am personally excited to see how good it Pacific Rim film series translates to anime in Pacific Rim: The Black, which launches on March 4 (giant robots in anime? It just might work!). The Irregulars (March 26) is great Buffy / Sabrina potential: a series about young paranormal crime fighters based on Sherlock Holmes’ famous “Baker Street Irregulars”. And then there is Moxie (March 3), a dramatic film about a girl who launches a ‘zine to expose sexism in her high school, which sounds quite culturally relevant and is also the directorial debut of one Amy Poehler.
Here’s everything else coming to Netflix in March 2021 and leaving it.
What’s coming to Netflix in March 2021?
Available soon (no date announced)
March 1
- Biggie: I have a story to tell – Netflix documentary
- Batman begins (2005)
- Blanche Gardin: Good White Night (2021)
- Crazy, stupid, love (2011)
- Dancing with wolves (1990)
- DC Super Hero Girls: Season 1
- I am a legend (2007)
- Invictus (2009)
- Jason x (2001)
- Kill Gunther (2017)
- LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom (2019)
- Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
- Power Rangers Beast Morphers: S2
- Rain man (1988)
- Step Up: Revolution (2012)
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
- The dark knight (2008)
- The Pursuit of Happiness (2006)
- Training day (2001)
- Two weeks notice (2002)
- Year one (2009)
March 2nd
3 March
4th of March
March 5th
8 March
9th of March
10th of March
11 March
12 March
March 14
Mar. 15
March 16
17th of March
18th of March
March 19
20th of March
March 22nd
- Navillera – Netflix Original (South Korea)
- Philomena (2013)
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 26
- A week away – Netflix movie (Trailer
- Bad trip – Netflix movie
- Great hurry: Seasons 1-4
- Croupier (1998)
- The Irregulars – Netflix Original (Great Britain)
- Magic for Humans by Mago Pop – Netflix original
- Nailed !: Double Trouble – Netflix original
29 March
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
- Rainbow high: Season 1
30 March
- 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story (2020)
- Octonauts and the Ring of Fire – Netflix Family (Great Britain)
March 31st
- At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
- Haunted: Latin America – Netflix original
What will leave Netflix in March 2021
Departs March 3
Departure on March 7
- Hunter X Hunter (2011): seasons 1-3
Departure on March 8
- Apollo 18 (2011)
- The young offenders (2016)
Departure on March 9
- Criminals in November (2017)
- The boss’s daughter (2015)
Departure on March 10
- Last ferry (2019)
- Summer night (2019)
Departure on March 13
- Spring Breakers (2012)
- The outsider (2019)
Departure March 14
- Aftermath (2017)
- Marvel & ESPN Films available: 1 of 1: Genesis
- The assignment (2016)
- The student (2017)
Departure March 15
Departure on March 16
- Deep Undercover: Collections 1-3
- Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment (2019)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Departs March 17th
- Everything about Nina (2018)
- Come and find me (2016)
Departs March 20
- Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017)
Departure on March 22
- Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
- I don’t know how she does it (2011)
Departure on March 24
- USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Departure on March 25
- Blood father (2016)
- The hurricane raid (2018)
Departure on March 26
Departure on March 27
Departs March 30
- Extras: Seasons 1-2
- Kill them gently (2012)
- London Spy: Season 1
- The house that made me: Seasons 1-3
Departs March 31
- Arthur (2011)
- Chappaquiddick (2017)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- God is not dead (2014)
- Hedgehogs (2016)
- Inception (2010)
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Kung Fu hustle and bustle (2004)
- Molly’s Game (2017)
- Money Talks (1997)
- School Daze (1988)
- Secret in their eyes (2015)
- Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
- Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- Sinister circle (2017)
- Skin Wars: Seasons 1-3
- Cab driver (1976)
- The Bye Bye Man (2017)
- The benefits of a wallflower are (2012)
- The Prince & Me (2004)
- Weeds: Seasons 1-7